Conservatives Plan to Revive EU Constitution - Mission impossible or successful venture?
A group of conservative European politicians is on a mission to resurrect the moribund EU Constitution, according to a German weekly. Angela Merkel is reportedly among them. Christian Democratic politicians from Berlin, Paris and the European Parliament were holding confidential talks to restart talks on the failed attempt to ratify a constitution for the European Union, according to reports in Der Spiegel magazine. The European constitution was put on ice after voters in France and the Netherlands rejected the draft document last year. Now, Der Spiegel wrote, the group of European conservatives planned to augment the first two chapters of the document, which describe the functions of the 25-state union and the common and civil law that applies to it. The new version would then be put to vote before the French and Dutch populations. The third chapter, which is entirely bureaucratic, would then be ratified by each country's respective parliament. Should this happen, it means both countries will ultimately have given their legal rubber stamp to the same document 14 other EU member states have already agreed to. It still remains to be ratified by the remaining states. The latest attempt will likely begin when Germany takes over the EU presidency, in the first half of 2007.
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